What time will stock market close from today? New timings and rationale explained
The stock market has introduced new closing timings, including a Closing Auction Session, to improve liquidity and price accuracy. These changes affect different categories of securities, specifically targeting F&O-linked stocks to reduce the impact of last-minute orders.
Why it matters
Market structure changes directly impact how institutional and retail investors execute trades and how benchmark prices are established.
From today, the stock market closing time is changing. The market is now operating with three separate end-of-day timelines. This means that the closing time for different categories of securities and the way closing prices are determined for stocks that have futures and options (F&O) contracts is changing.From today, the continuous trading in stocks with F&O contracts will conclude at 3:15 p.m. After that the stocks will enter a Closing Auction Session (CAS). For stocks that are not part of the CAS framework, the trading will continue trading until 3:30 p.m., while trading in index and stock derivatives will remain open until 3:40 p.m.The Closing Auction Session aims to concentrate liquidity at the end of the trading day.
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